JOURNEY'S END: The Life, Loves and Music of Alvin C. "Rawhide" Mikkelsen -- Buckskinner, Philosopher, and Ambassador of Honesty and Good Will
Book Details
Author(s)Alvin Mikkelsen
PublisherRawhide Press, Carlsbad, New Mexico
ISBN / ASINB01KYVIDJO
ISBN-13978B01KYVIDJ9
Sales Rank160,930
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The bygone days of the 19th century are quickly becoming whispers among many historians. But Alvin Mikkelsen’s memoirs resurrects memories of cattle drives, real cowboys and Indians, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and pioneers of country music like Ernest Tubb and Gene Autry.
“I’ve been coaxed by many folks to set down highlights that happened to me throughout the years. I don’t see anything outstanding about anything I’ve done. But for some reason they think I’ve had quite a unique and unusual life. When facts are lacking, my imagination serves me well.”
Many people in the Dakotas and around the country still remember Alvin’s music, his great sense of humor, and his antics. Thanks to his daughter, Cecilia, finding his dictations from the 1980s, you’ll have the pleasure of learning about his passion for his guitar and music, one-liners, and most of all his children.
Alvin’s raw recollections are mainly about survival. Surviving times of finding enough money to keep food on the table. Surviving working at any kind of job to keep the family unit together, while leaving them weeks and months at a time. Surviving blizzards, tornadoes, dust storms, floods, saddle sores and dusty old coots challenging him to fisty-cuffs.
Surviving, well, life.
In spite of the hardships and toil they took on his body, and often his pocketbook, “Old Rawhide” always had a smile for his fellow men, and a twinkle in his sky blues eyes for pretty women.
While shaking a person’s hand firmly, he’d give them a warm pat on the back followed by, “I’m so glad you got to meet me,” which would often take them by surprise.
Alvin was particularly well-known for hours of story-telling (sometimes accompanied by his guitar), and a sense of humor served up with strong cups of coffee, or even a beer or two.
So sit back and sit a spell for real-life tales, a little bit of orneriness, many historical details, and the Life, Loves and Music of Alvin C. “Rawhide” Mikkelsen: Trapper, Philosopher, and Ambassador of Honesty and Good Will.
As Dale Evans and Roy Rogers sang as they rode off into the sunset, “Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.”
“I’ve been coaxed by many folks to set down highlights that happened to me throughout the years. I don’t see anything outstanding about anything I’ve done. But for some reason they think I’ve had quite a unique and unusual life. When facts are lacking, my imagination serves me well.”
Many people in the Dakotas and around the country still remember Alvin’s music, his great sense of humor, and his antics. Thanks to his daughter, Cecilia, finding his dictations from the 1980s, you’ll have the pleasure of learning about his passion for his guitar and music, one-liners, and most of all his children.
Alvin’s raw recollections are mainly about survival. Surviving times of finding enough money to keep food on the table. Surviving working at any kind of job to keep the family unit together, while leaving them weeks and months at a time. Surviving blizzards, tornadoes, dust storms, floods, saddle sores and dusty old coots challenging him to fisty-cuffs.
Surviving, well, life.
In spite of the hardships and toil they took on his body, and often his pocketbook, “Old Rawhide” always had a smile for his fellow men, and a twinkle in his sky blues eyes for pretty women.
While shaking a person’s hand firmly, he’d give them a warm pat on the back followed by, “I’m so glad you got to meet me,” which would often take them by surprise.
Alvin was particularly well-known for hours of story-telling (sometimes accompanied by his guitar), and a sense of humor served up with strong cups of coffee, or even a beer or two.
So sit back and sit a spell for real-life tales, a little bit of orneriness, many historical details, and the Life, Loves and Music of Alvin C. “Rawhide” Mikkelsen: Trapper, Philosopher, and Ambassador of Honesty and Good Will.
As Dale Evans and Roy Rogers sang as they rode off into the sunset, “Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.”
